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[stricken] Abner Mitchell - 6 bu wheat for Hurley 6 bu

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let. Mr. Pierce

  1 crock butter - 24 lb    $3.75
  1  crock   "         25  "     $2.97
 Mr. Buchanning - have  23-3/4

[stricken] H.E. Burhan - to hay 160 lb at 25-/2 h. Rev. D. ____ [snipped out of a publication:] WEIGHTS AND MEASURES- The following table of the number of pounds of various articles to a bushel, may be of interest to our readers : Of wheat, 60 pounds. Of shelled corn, 56 pounds. Of corn on the cob, 70 pounds. Of rye, 56 pounds. Of oats, 36 pounds. Of barley, 46 pounds. Of potatoes, 60 pounds. Of beans, 60 pounds. Of bran, 20 pounds. Of clover seed, 60 pounds. Of timothy seed, 45 pounds. Of flax seed, 45 pounds. Of hemp seed, 44 pounds. Of buckwheat, 52 pounds. Of blue grass seed, 14 pounds. Of castor beans, 46 pounds. Of dried peaches, 33 pounds. Of dried apples, 24 pounds. Of onions, 57 pounds. Of salt, 50 pounds. [snipped out of a publication:] MR. SLOW DISCOURSETH ON GRAVE TOPICS. - "Bimlech, my son," said Mr. Slow, shaking his head with oracular and owl-like profundity, "it isn't well to know too much, my boy; your father never did: he knowed too much for that. Thoughts is perplexin', and the human mind, Bimlech, is too precious a thing to be wore out with too much friction. Don't abuse the gifts of nater, my son, 'cause nater's one of 'em, she is. Don't inwestigate anything new, my boy, 'cause there's a thousand old things of more konsekence to look arter - the first of which is number one. New notions perplexes the mind, dear - there's full enough fools in the world who like to look after such things, without your troubling your precious head head about 'em - 'twouldn't be a cent of benefit to you. Call 'em all humbug and moonshine, and them as believes 'em lunatics and scoundrels, and that'll save you many a discussion, and give you a cha___ for dignity and prudence, and prudent folks make money. Philosophy and sciens, and them things, is humbugs, and everything is a humbug but money. Mind I tell ye." Mr. Slow ceased, overcame by his own eloquence. Dec. 6, 1854 - Began eating on my 35 bu wheat.